Historic BIGOT D-Day Card & 505th PIR Maps Grouping

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S/Sgt Tommy B. Gore BIGOT Top Secret security card for the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment Normandy S2 operations staff planning...The card is signed by Col. Benjamin H. Vandervoort 505th CO and countersigned by another officer...It's difficult to see, but there are printed words on the card...S/Sgt Gore's operational maps he used at Normandy include a Normandy map with units marked, two La Haye Du Puits maps and his E & E silk map from his Holland jump...S/Sgt Gore made 4 combat jumps with the 505th in WWII.

 

The list of personnel cleared to know details of Overlord was known as the BIGOT list, and the people on it were known as "Bigots". The details of the invasion plan were so secret, adherence to the list was rigidly enforced. U.S. military advisor George Elsey tells a story in his memoirs about how a junior officer turned away King George VI from the intelligence centre on the USS Ancon, because, as he explained to a superior officer "...nobody told me he was a Bigot."^{[7][3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIGOT_list}

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D-Day map

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Holland Map

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D-Day bump

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Hi Ed

 

What a truly special grouping...

 

Gotta love BIGOT planning items.

 

Thank You for sharing.

Regards

 

Tom